A Netherlands-based nonprofit organization needs astronauts for a settlement on Mars, to be established in 2023. Here’s their pitch for the project:
80-Year-Old Man’s Last Moments With Wife Interrupted by Drug Raid
When Utah’s Barbara Mahaffey died of colon cancer last May, police were in the house within minutes searching for her prescription medication , as her distraught and mourning 80-year-old husband watched helplessly. “I was holding her hand saying goodbye when all the intrusion happened,” he said. “I was indignant to think… Read More
Breitbart: Is LAPD Scaring Public with Fake ‘Rocket Launchers’?
The LAPD announced recently that its gun buyback program turned up two “rocket launchers.” It turns out, according to Breitbart , that the story “is pure puffery. These so-called ‘rocket launchers’ the LAPD recovered weren’t a danger to anyone. In fact, at least one of them was never a danger… Read More
Progressives Should Support Nullification
So says Joel Poindexter over at the Tenth Amendment Center. He says it would have been worth it for them to try state-level resistance to odious measures of the Bush Administration, and that it can be used against various other federal outrages. In my experience with progressives… Read More
Gun Appreciation Day
Planned for January 19 .
Self-Driving Cars?
Is this just crazy talk? I can’t tell if I’m being scammed here. (Courtesy of InsuranceQuotes.com .)
Becoming Europe: Economic Culture, Decline, and How America Can Avoid a European Future
Sam Gregg’s new book with that title comes out tomorrow. I haven’t seen it yet, but here’s how Amazon describes it: “We’re becoming like Europe.” This expression captures many Americans’ sense that something has changed in American economic life since the Great Recession’s onset in 2008: that… Read More
Health Premiums Rise on Those Least Able to Afford It
But that’s not how the law was supposed to work out! Well, how about that. From the New York Times today : Health insurance companies across the country are seeking and winning double-digit increases in premiums for some customers, even though one of the biggest objectives of the Obama administration’s health care law was… Read More
Fed Official: How to Unwind?
Philadelphia Fed President Charles Plosser warns that scaling back the Fed’s balance sheet without causing further damage to the economy could be difficult: “If it doesn’t go smoothly, we may do more damage to the economy in terms of instability, or a rise in unemployment. I think those concerns are… Read More
Duchess of Cambridge Has Hyperemesis Gravidarum
Kate Middleton, Duchess of Cambridge, has a rare illness of pregnancy called hyperemesis gravidarum. In our household, we hope the silver lining of her struggle is that research is done into the causes and alleviation of this awful thing. My wife has had it repeatedly. Here’s what happens to you .